Inhofe Watch: Stall climate action "until we get a new president"

by Emily Gertz · 2009-06-04 18:51:00 UTC
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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) played to an appreciative crowd this week at a conference organized by the Heartland Institute, a bastion of global warming skepticism. His approach to legislating on the fate of the nation's energy policy? Create gridlock:

The EPA has threatened to regulate this through the Clean Air Act. That isn’t going to work in my opinion because we can stall that until we get a new president—that shouldn’t be a problem.

(Hat tip to Kate Sheppard at Grist)

Emily Gertz
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